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No created powers can mar our Lord Jesus' music, nor spill our song of joy. Let us then be glad and rejoice in the salvation of our Lord

Samuel Rutherford

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Samuel Rutherford
Died: 1661
Died: March 29
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Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them then let our Lord's sweet hand square us and hammer us and strike off the knots of pride self-love and world-worship and infidelity that He may make us stones and pillars in His Father's house.
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Every man by nature is a freeman born by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.
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I have been benefited by praying for others for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.
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See that you buy the field where the Pearl is sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.
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My dear brother, let God make of you what He will, He will end all with consolation, and shall make glory out of your suffering.
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Christ chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.
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Christ seeketh your help in your place give Him your hand.
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I find my Lord Jesus cometh not in the precise way that I lay wait for Him. He hath a manner of His own. Oh, how high are His ways above my ways
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I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations if water stands, it rots faith is the better for the sharp winter storm in its face and grace withers without adversity. The devil is but God's master fencer to teach us to handle our weapons.
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I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights , to preach Christ my Lord
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Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience.
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After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.
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I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what their Lord is preparing for them.
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Ye have lost a child--nay, she is not lost to you, who is found to Christ she is not sent away, but only sent before like unto a star, which going out of our sight, doth not die and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere.
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I see Christ's love is so kingly, that it will not abide a marrow it must have a throne all alone in the soul.
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Grace grows best in winter.
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Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.
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We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.
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It is certain that this is not only good which the Almighty has done, but that it is best He hath reckoned all your steps to heaven.
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When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and shall put your foot within the march of eternity, all the good things of your short nightdream shall seem to you like ashes of a blaze of thorns or straw.
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